Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prytime Medical Devices Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners. Although there are multiple examiners involved, the cases are situated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests a concentration of technical subject matter, where several examiners within the same administrative departments are reviewing the company's medical device applications.
LAUER, CHRISTINA C is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With the total pending office actions distributed among the examiners, the company must manage different examiner relationships across 2 distinct art units. For the practitioner, the concentration in a small number of units may provide some consistency in the applicable legal standards and examination guidelines, even as individual examiner perspectives vary. Success requires balancing these individual relationships while navigating the shared standards of the two art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
| DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 1 | 76.8% | +26.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563629 | OCCLUSION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR PARTIAL OCCLUSION OR FULL OCCLUSION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17581134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW PROFILE OCCLUSION BALLOON CATHETER | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 12d |
| 17563629 | OCCLUSION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR PARTIAL OCCLUSION OR FULL OCCLUSION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17581134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW PROFILE OCCLUSION BALLOON CATHETER | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jan 21, 2022 |
| 17563629 | OCCLUSION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR PARTIAL OCCLUSION OR FULL OCCLUSION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialPrytime Medical Devices Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Lauren Dubose has the most, with 1 of Prytime Medical Devices Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
